On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Mikulas Patocka writes: > > Hi > > > > Here I'm sending some ia64 patches to make it work in the ski emulator. > > This has been broken for a long time. > > Thanks. I've recently started running 3.x kernels on ia64 via ski, > but I'm getting random kernel crashes with 3.13. I'll give your > patches a try shortly. I also had some random page-table corruption when running recent kernels in ski. The problems occured when upgrading the whole Debian distribution. Kernel 2.6.8 was solid, new kernels caused problems, I don't know why. > I've written a few patches to improve other aspects of running the > kernel on ski: > - ski patch to use tun/tap networking (no need to run ski as root) > - ski patch to implement a fixed-frequency ITC (the ITC is currently > highly variable, completely breaking basic timekeeping) > - kernel patch to turn PAL_HALT_LIGHT into a new SSC_HALT_LIGHT, > and a corresponing ski patch to pause() on SSC_HALT_LIGHT; this > together with the fixed-frequency ITC patch allows ski to idle > with very low host CPU overhead when the guest kernel idles > - kernel patch to bump the RAM size from 130MB to 2GB > > I'd be happy to share these patches if there's interest in them. > > /Mikael I would be interested in them. I also patched that timekeeping issue in ski. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
